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IoO study may improve glaucoma assessment and treatment

Publication date:
28 October 2011

Recently published UCL Institute of Ophthalmology research may change the way that healthcare professionals measure eye pressure and allow them to assess the risk of glaucoma with greater accuracy. Read: Health Canal

Of mice and medicine: In defence of animal experiments

Unique British Sign Language resource becomes available to all online

Publication date:
20 October 2011

A unique collection of language recordings of British Sign Language - the language of the British Deaf community commonly known as BSL - is now available to all online.The recordings, collected as part of the BSL Corpus Project, led by staff at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) at UCL, will be of enormous benefit to students and teachers of BSL and to sign language interpreting across the country, leading to improved services for Deaf people that will better ensure their full participation in society.

Medicine 'thrown into crisis' by stem cell ruling

Publication date:
20 October 2011

Professor Pete Coffey (UCL Institute of
Ophthalmology) is among leading medical researchers who have condemned a
European ban on the patenting of stem cell inventions derived from
human embryos. Read: The IndependentMore: Daily Mail

Professor Pete Coffey named recipient of inaugural NYSCF-Robertson Prize in Stem Cell Research

Publication date:
13 October 2011

The New York Stem Cell Foundation
(NYSCF) announced today that Professor Pete Coffey DPhil, Director of the London Project to Cure Blindness and Professor of
Cellular Therapy and Visual Sciences at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, will be the first recipient of the New York Stem Cell
Foundation-Robertson Prize in Stem Cell Research, a $200,000 prize
awarded annually for extraordinary achievement in translational stem
cell research. Read: News-medical.net